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Kenyan Army Kills Commander of al-Shabaab

Kenya’s military Sunday killed 11 militants from the Somali extremist group

Associated Press

June 15, 2015 8:38 a.m. ET

NAIROBI, Kenya—Kenya’s military Monday said they had killed the commander of al-Shabaab extremist group responsible for two attacks a year ago that killed at least 60 people, as he led an attack on a military camp in the same area.

Authorities were also trying to establish whether one of the bodies of two white men, among the suspected extremists killed in the Sunday attack on an army camp in Lamu County over the weekend, is that of...